On 5/13/04 10:46 PM, Dan Crevier wrote:
Someone could write a utility that has a rules like interface and generates AppleScripts for this sort of purpose.
I thought the application "that has a rules like interface" was supposed to be Entourage ;)
But seriously folks, in what century can we expect nested logical expressions in rules? Because maintaining 500 rules like this:
1. if sender is a and subject contains foo ... 2. if sender is b and subject contains foo ... 3. if sender is c and subject contains foo ... 4. if sender is d and subject contains foo ... ... 499. if sender is se and subject contains foo ... 500. if sender is sf and subject contains foo ...
gets really, really, really old...especially when the "foo" clause changes :P
Even the "consumer" version of Retrospect (yes, Retrospect, the ages old, originally classic Mac OS application) supports nested logic in its filter GUI. And yet an "advanced" email app like Entourage--email! the biggest single flow of information most users have to filter and organize!--still doesn't support it. (Or does it in 2004? Prove me wrong, please! :)
That kind of sissy "too complicated for our stone-dumb users" attitude may be fine for Apple Mail (haha, j/k Cricket, back to work on that "from <person in address book>" rules feature, right? :), but the mighty Entourage? C'mon...
Sounds like a nice feaure for the AppleScript generator app. You could use it for rules in addition to schedules. Entourage 2004 can run multiple AppleScript related rules. You could even write this app in AppleScript studio. Hey, doesn't Paul know AppleScript Studio? :-)
Dan
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